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For me it turned out to be the button right beside the charge port opener was accidentally moved to “Lock” and all I had to do was flip it to Auto.

I've stumbled on a simpler solution to the dreaded self-test fault. If I simply touch the screen to wake up the unit before plugging it in, the self-test fault doesn't happen. It happened every time just plugging in for months, never since waking it up first.

I've stumbled on a simpler solution to the dreaded self-test fault. If I simply touch the screen to wake up the unit before plugging it in, the self-test fault doesn't happen. It happened every time just plugging in for months, never since waking it up first.

The charging timer setting in that model is counterintuitive. I've had mine set for 0:00, assuming it was setting a charging start time. Today noticed that my electric bills since getting this model have been higher and that charging was starting hours earlier. Who would have ever guessed that...

Hah! We win - OUR VIN shows up as a Nissan 370Z! Our insurance would have been quite different if we had allowed THAT to slide by.

Motion sickness is caused by a disparity between what the inner ear is perceiving as motion and what the eyes are reporting. If your son is looking downward (such as at a hand-held video game), he's going to get sick, because his sense of balance is reporting one thing (motions from front to...

I'm deeply grateful to eberybody who is responding. This is EXACTLY the sort of feedback that I was hoping for!

We're starting to look into solar panels for our own home in San Diego - When we had our electrical system massively re-done in our 1918 house, we made sure to prepare for PV AND EV. The huge, additional, rectangular addition that the prior owner installed has a nice, flat, unshaded roof with...

The Safari Park AND the Zoo are working on getting new charging stations installed - Back in November, I alerted my husband Dennis (who is a webmaster for the Zoo, and who now drives our Leaf) that the federal subsidy funds for commercial sites would be running out at the end of 2010, so he...

I wouldn't be surprised at all. Can you imagine what the turnout would have been if it hadn't been on a weekday morning when so many people needed to be at work? None whatsoever, and I looked at every single car in the area. Here's my theory: It was Leon. Leon, who works for Mossy Nissan...

Here's the picture that I posted showing all 49 VISIBLE plug-in cars (I spotted #50, a Cayenne Red Leaf, down at a lower level, later on):

Here's the picture that I posted showing all 49 VISIBLE plug-in cars (I spotted #50, a Cayenne Red Leaf) down at a lower level, later on:

And, for those who don't know, that's an error of about 100 miles!

From Autoweek magazine: By NEIL ROLAND, AUTOMOTIVE NEWS on 4/26/2011 The 2011 Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf electric cars won the highest safety ratings in crash tests performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, putting them in the top 57 percent of models tested so far this...

Here's an article that I wrote for my technology newsletter. It started out as a "Lease versus Buy" topic, and then veered off into more philosophical areas: Dennis and I are supposed to finally get our all-electric Nissan Leaf car on Friday. In June, I will have pursuing this car for two...